India

'Digital Designs - from Unique ID to CBDC' was co-organized by PRIO and the Maharashtra Institute of Technology-World Peace University (MIT-WPU) at MIT-WPU's campus in Pune, India, 9-10 February 2024.

​The project will investigate the current crisis of statelessness affecting millions of people in the Bengali borderlands, including the Rohingya population of Myanmar and Bengali Muslims in the Northeast Indian state of Assam.

​How is e-governance and the Internet of Things (IoT) changing the everyday lives of the people of India and China, and how are these multifaceted changes affecting international relations?Congratulations to Åshild Kolås, who will lead the project e-Topia: China, India and Biometric Borders, which has now received 4-year funding from the Foreign Policy programme of the Research Council of Norway.

​Even in the context of contentious debates on immigration in Europe and the United States, people rarely question the capacity of their governments to identify their citizens and distinguish them from non-citizens living in the country.

I juni ble årets konfliktdata fra Uppsala universitet lansert i Journal of Peace Research.

Åshild Kolås, PRIO Research Professor, has published two new books on Women, Peace and Security in India and Nepal.

with Task Force member Ruchita Beri, IDSA

International Conference held in Varanasi, India, on 28-29 September 2016

Special Issue of Alternatives: Global, Local, Political edited by Åshild Kolås

Editors: Anirban Ganguly, Vijay Chautahiwale, Uttam Sinha

Professor Sanjib Baruah is a guest researcher at PRIO in July.

Women Engaging in Islamic Charity as ‘Development Agents’

Three-day IDSA-PRIO conference featured presentations by key experts from India, Europe, South Africa, Russia, Australia, and the USA

IDSA-PRIO workshop held at Thon Hotel Vika Atrium, Oslo

​​​​​Elida Kristine Undrum Jaocobsen has on Monday 25 May 2015 successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ”Unique Biometric IDs: Governmentality and Appropriation in a Digital India” at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg.

WISCOMP POLICY DIALOGUE III

An international conference sponsored by PRIO and co-organised by Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development (OKDISCD)

Hosted by WISCOMP (Women in Security Conflict Management and Peace) in New Delhi, 21-22 February 2015, the PRIO project Making Women Count for Peace co-organised the Roundtable event Women and Peacebuilding: A Policy Dialogue.

​"Dividing Line" (posted 3 October 2014) and "Upstream Superpowers" (posted 5 December 2014)

An international conference sponsored by PRIO and co-organised by Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development (OKDISCD)